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^{DVB-H stars in Berlin IFA} Philips shows S3 mobi TV middleware

3 Sep 2005 at 06:20 GMT Timo Poropudas

Silicon & Software Systems Ltd. (S3) announced Friday that its onHandTV DVB?H software has been successfully integrated into a Philips smartphone platform.

Based on Philips Nexperia mobile platform, this solution demonstrates DVB-H/IPDC functionality from onHandTV tightly coupled with the advanced cellular capabilities of a high-end smartphone.

S3’s onHandTV is an IPDC over DVB-H software solution compliant with the emerging DVB-CBMS standard. First released in May 2005, targeting upcoming trials and commercial network launches, onHandTV delivers a complete solution, including protocol stacks, middleware, and applications, enabling accelerated time to market by delivering a low footprint, high performance, fully interoperable solution.

“S3 is a natural partner to showcase the richness of our TV-on-Mobile solution,” said Rutton Ruttonsha, BL Personal Entertainment Solutions General Manager, Philips Semiconductors.

“Their understanding of the emerging mobile TV market needs and the availability of onHandTV enables Philips to demonstrate the key features of our DVB-H solution”.

Speaking about the announcement, John O’Brien, CEO of S3 said, “This is a key milestone for S3, demonstrating our software working in a fully operational smartphone platform. We view this as a continuing vote of confidence in onHandTV by one of the world’s leading suppliers of DVB-H technology.”

Philips is demonstrating its TV on Mobile Solution at the Berlin IFA expo 2 – 7 September.

The Silicon & Software Systems’ DVB-H/IPDC consists of mission-critical middleware and applications for Mobile TV.

Included amongst S3’s clients and partners are Intel, IBM, OpenTV, Philips, STMicroelectronics, Sky, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and Xilinx.